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The American Guild of Organists (AGO) is an international organization of academic, church, and concert organists in the US, headquartered in New York City with its administrative offices in the Interchurch Center. Founded as a professional educational association, it was chartered by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New ...
Frederick Lewis Swann (July 30, 1931 – November 13, 2022) was an American church and concert organist, choral conductor, composer, and president of the American Guild of Organists. His extensive discography includes both solo organ works and choral ensembles he has conducted.
John C. Walker, more familiarly known as John Walker, is an American concert organist, choirmaster, and CD recording artist. He is also a former president of the American Guild of Organists, elected in May 2014 to a two-year term of the 16,000-member organization.
She initiated the study of Anglo-American organs as a sub-discipline in the 1950s. [1] She founded the Organ Historical Society in 1956 and served as its president. [1] [4] In 1985, she became librarian of the Organ Library of the American Guild of Organists at Boston University. She held numerous other positions for the Guild, serving as dean ...
Harold Friedell (11 May 1905 – 17 February 1958) was an American organist.He was well known as a performer and educator, teaching at Juilliard and Union Seminary, a composer of a large number of choral anthems and solo organ pieces, and as a prominent leader in the American Guild of Organists.
Clifford Demarest (August 12, 1874 – May 13, 1946) was an American composer. He wrote a number of anthems, songs, and part-songs, as well as some pieces for piano and for organ. He was early leader of the American Guild of Organists, and from 1911 until his death he served as organist at Church of the Messiah (New York City).
American Guild of Organists; American Theatre Organ Society; B. British Institute of Organ Studies; Bund Deutscher Orgelbaumeister; G. Gothenburg Organ Art Center; O.
Roberta Bitgood (Wiersma) (15 January 1908 – 15 April 2007) was an American organist, choir director, and composer. She was a pioneer of 20th-century American church music , and the first woman to serve as national president of the American Guild of Organists .